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patrician

[puh-trish-uhn] / pəˈtrɪʃ ən /




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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

This was despite the fact that Bush didn't drink and his very patrician Connecticut lineage went all the way back to President Franklin Pierce.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

Cutler was struck by how Stewart’s experiences differed from the “childhood of privilege and formality” he had imagined, based on her patrician image.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

Over time, as inherited wealth smoothed the rough edges, their descendants morphed into American high society and evolved a signature style of living based on understatement and old- fashioned patrician values.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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